President Barack Obama, the Democratic National Committee and their joint fundraising group Obama Victory broke the billion dollar mark for the 2012 campaign. "In the first 17 days of October, 1,251,291 people came together to raise $90,500,000 for the campaign and combined committees," the campaign announced on Twitter Thursday.

The campaign disputes the $1 billion figure, arguing that money raised before April 2011 should not be counted because the committees had not yet been combined. A campaign official put the total at $988 million.

CLARIFICATION: An earlier version of this item should have specified the total referred to three campaign committees combined.